On Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 04:15:20PM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote: > On 10/17/25 2:01 AM, Casey Connor wrote: > > > Bash Version: 5.2 > > Patch Level: 15 > > Release Status: release > > > > Description: > > > > If I open a new terminal and enter the (obviously malformed) command > > "$(;" (without quotes) I get a bash crash about 90% of the time. > > Thanks for the report. I can't reproduce this using bash-5.3 on RHEL. I > don't have a Debian system handy to test on.
On latest devel, using ubuntu 24.04, bash --noprofile --norc, I get: bash-5.3$ $(; bash: syntax error near unexpected token `;' while looking for matching `)' bash: DEBUG warning: current_token (10) != shell_eof_token () bash: syntax error No crashes, but the message is mb pointing to something. -- Regards, Mike Jonkmans
